| Posted: April 30, 2007 |
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IBM's Next Five in Five
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(Nanowerk News) IBM's "Next Five in Five" list is a view on five innovations that will change how people around the world work, play and live over the next five years. Here are IBM's predictions:
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1) We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world
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2) Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the
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3) There will be a 3-D Internet
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4) Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance
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5) Our mobile phones will start to read our minds
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These five innovations were selected based on projects in our Research labs, research conducted by our business think-tank, and ideas pooled from more than 150,000 people from 104 countries who took part in an online brainstorming session called “IBM InnovationJam.”
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Item 4 deals with carbon nanoptubes used for water desalination and nanostructure fabrication used in making better solar cells.
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